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  1. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm pretty confident we'd get the same results if we polled this forum. "I've got a couple million in the bank, own a half dozen rental properties, and drive an 80 thousand fucking dollar car... I'm super middle class and inflation is really hurting right now!" As someone who grew up poor and...
  2. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    If pie crust is too much work, you're doing it wrong. Almost the whole trick is to do it quickly. If you've been working at it for a while, that pie crust is gonna suck. This year I've been exploring the wonders of slow roasting meats of all kinds. Turkey was no exception. 250 for 8 hours was...
  3. Aldarion

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Imagine its the year 2023, and you still think Thanksgiving had anything to do with Pilgrims and Indians, instead of being invented by Abraham Lincoln mid-Civil-War. Tell me you uncritically accept made up fake history without telling me you uncritically accept made up fake history
  4. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Pics. Every goose roasting video I've gotten to the end and thought it looked inferior to turkey and pretty unappetizing all around. I keep thinking it sounds good, but the pics keep convincing me otherwise. help a brother out!
  5. Aldarion

    Lending money to friends?

    Mists lending money to friends? Its fucked up you guys are giving my friend such a hard time about this
  6. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    I understood some of the words in those explanations
  7. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    When real AI emerges and wipes out humanity this is why I wont blame it even a little
  8. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    yeah, obviously they'll CGI surfer like Colossus. The question is just how much fro they'll CGI, and just how fat and sassy will the Section 8 Surfer be.
  9. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    Really anytime youre interested in buying something, and theres someone in between you and the seller collecting some fraction of the sale price, that person is a parasite who shouldnt exist. I don't just mean their job, I mean the individual. Fuck all those people and anyone who chooses to...
  10. Aldarion

    Ancient Civilizations

    Agreed, but I think you misunderstood me. Yes we have good evidence that Jesus existed. Less so that he was the son of God, that part is a matter of faith. But I wasnt making some knock against religion. I was saying its foolish to make fun of religious reports while simultaneously saying...
  11. Aldarion

    Ancient Civilizations

    Why? You have equal levels of hard evidence for aliens as for gods. And if we include secondhand accounts you have orders of magnitudes more people claiming encounters with gods than aliens.
  12. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    if they cast a female silver surfer shes definitely black.
  13. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    My impression is 1 to 2 yrs in OR, without any major shortcuts available. Second hand info but that's where my impression comes from
  14. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    I wasnt being clear. The certificate isnt hard, of course. You're absolutely right, all one has to do is look at the people who get it. Its not at all a test of ability or knowledge or anything like that. What it is, is ridiculously time consuming and 100% busywork. The kind of program no...
  15. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    "mostly" is doing a hell of a heavy lift in that sentence. So you are not disputing that they were there to root out Thought Crime, just saying they were "mostly" responsible for other stuff?
  16. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    They get teaching certificates. Its required in OR. Maybe different somewhere else, and maybe different in the past, but as of now OR loves their fucking certificates.
  17. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    Its a fine idea, but you can have a terminal degree in your field and a few decades of experience teaching, and you still arent allowed to teach K-12 until you have that goddam ridiculous certificate.
  18. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    Werent those "safety" teams primarily responsible for making sure LLMs dont say anything that goes against woke orthodoxy?
  19. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    And remember, the experts assure us it'd be very bad for consumers if the prices went down! Always trust the experts.
  20. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    lol you nailed it. I had to look up each show to figure out what you were talking about. Somehow my brain had fused those two together as "close enough, must be that guy again". My confusion wasnt about the Thing, it was saying that would be the only white actor after we've been talking about...
  21. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    He looks better for the part than Chuck. I know, everybody loves Chuck, but he just looks too goofy for a good Reed Richards. Picture Pedro with no mustache and some grey in the temples. He'd look perfect.
  22. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    ???
  23. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Damn, between the Reed Richards casting and the Galactus casting rumors, its almost like they're seeking out actors that look like the characters theyre playing. This is getting fucking weird. Next thing you know we'll get a pretty white girl cast as Sue Storm.
  24. Aldarion

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    People who set alarm clocks, I get it if its like your first year in college or something and you never had to get up early before, otherwise WTF? You choose to wake up every single day to a sound that specifically chosen to be loud and annoying. On purpose. Over and over. WT actual fuck. Just...
  25. Aldarion

    For All Mankind

    Finally got around to watching this, somewhere in early S2 now. Important question, though. Ed's cunt wife dies horribly at some point, right?
  26. Aldarion

    The Marvels (2023)

    I don't think thats entirely fair; Brie Larson is an unlikeable cunt no matter who's writing
  27. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    Theres a reason its been rightly described as the Evil Party vs the Stupid Party for decades now.
  28. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    It is shocking how widespread this misunderstanding is. I mean, as far as I can tell, its the great majority of the American public that thinks this. It makes me wonder if there will ever be an "oh shit" moment when they realize what it really means, and what that "oh shit" will look like.
  29. Aldarion

    Loki

    What? Sacred timeline Loki got killed by Thanos. The Loki show followed a variant produced as a result of Endgame time shenanigans.
  30. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Not sure what you mean by "you faggots", but its a miss if you were directing it at me. I'm just sick of the "let the left do whatever sick evil shit they want, cause I'm not doing it personally" attitude I hear a lot of around here lately. So I lash out and rage at people in a semi random manner.
  31. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    It really doesnt matter if you're watching or not. All of your children's potential future mates are watching. All the people who will be teaching your grandchildren are watching. All the people who will become elected officials in 40 years are watching. The world of the future is gay, trans...
  32. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    eh, if they didnt make screws out of ""metal"" with approximately the hardness of room temperature butter, it wouldnt really matter much
  33. Aldarion

    12 Monkeys

  34. Aldarion

    12 Monkeys

    Binging this now. Somewhere in s2 currently. A couple thoughts. 1. That crazy chick may have the best thighs I've ever seen on TV, holy shit this chick is weird hot. 2.
  35. Aldarion

    Doom Patrol

    This is a good show but you're seriously downplaying just how gay it is with this statement. It is by far the gayest superhero show I've ever seen. Its still got its great moments, don't get me wrong. But your comment makes it sound like its not that gay. Its super, super, super gay. I wouldnt...
  36. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I meant a successful, non-woke superhero movie.
  37. Aldarion

    Loki

    Having Loki was a perfect touch. I need to rewatch the whole season to fully digest it, but that was pretty great.
  38. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    problem is, unless they put out something non-woke thats successful, so they can compare them and learn lessons, they're just gonna conclude its superhero fatigue.
  39. Aldarion

    The Marvels (2023)

    People who watch this deserve all the mockery they get, but he did specifically say he watched a pirated copy, rather than buy tickets.
  40. Aldarion

    Invincible

    Theres a lot of reasons. Its stupid to think that every event that has more than one possible outcome leads to a branch point, most decisions and events just don't fucking matter. the butterfly effect is discussed because its a thing that can happen sometimes, not because its a thing that...